Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands
Project Design Workshop
30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Day 1 recap by Shirley Tarawali
Thinking and discussing about sustainable intensification
a range of views
on what this encompasses
on the extent to which it is ‘the’ or ‘a’ solution
everyone sees some value
Sustainable intensification in CGIAR research programs
In the project under discussion
Consensus
markets important & integral part
private sector
some kind of ‘intensification gradient’ makes sense - how we define, that is much less clear
Challenges
What is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’?
Many times – broadening
Bay for project proponents is how to define success
Lots of ideas & possible metrics from Stan
Lined up with USAID priorities but health/nutrition missing
Catalyse? Synergies? Leverage? Alignment
Level of work, level of success indicators & time frame - yes we may impost on nutrition – but that may be an outcome further down the road – several years – what are the measurable steps for us to know we are leading the right way?
Leveraging & connecting with other programmes is essential – that is where there is significant resources to take research results to scale. Over 70 projects & programmes in this rather small sub sample of R&D!
Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands
Project Design Workshop
30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Day 1 recap by Shirley Tarawali
Thinking and discussing about sustainable intensification
Sustainable intensification in CGIAR research programs
Consensus
Challenges
Level of work, level of success indicators & time frame - yes we may impost on nutrition – but that may be an outcome further down the road – several years – what are the measurable steps for us to know we are leading the right way?
Leveraging & connecting with other programmes is essential – that is where there is significant resources to take research results to scale.
Over 70 projects & programmes in this rather small sub sample of R&D!